Best Non-Alcoholic Bars in Nashua, NH

Nashua's alcohol-free scene is one room, and it is a good one. Root Awakening opened at the 300 Main Street Marketplace in 2022 as New England's first kava bar, and it is the only fully alcohol-free evening venue we have been able to verify in the city — there is no zero-proof cocktail bar here and no non-alcoholic bottle shop. Owner Gregory Gately built it after losing his brother to alcohol, and the brief shows in how it runs: open to midnight on weeknights and 1am at weekends, pouring kava from Fiji, Vanuatu and elsewhere in the South Pacific alongside kava lattes, kava mocktails and kombucha on tap, with the week filled the way a neighbourhood bar fills it — movie night on Mondays, trivia on Wednesdays, a darts tournament on Thursdays, karaoke on Fridays — and a games lounge and arcade cabinet where a taplist would otherwise be. It has since opened a second location in Worcester, Massachusetts. One caveat worth stating plainly: kava contains no alcohol but is psychoactive and mildly sedating, and it is not regulated by the FDA, so this is a night out without alcohol rather than a guaranteed substance-free one.

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